About Me edit
I am an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology studying aging and Alzheimer's disease from a neuroimmunology approach. I have an undergraduate degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a PhD in Neuroscience.
Why I'm editing Wikipedia these days edit
I've edited Wikipedia here-and-there for years. As I have become more knowledgeable in my field I find myself more and more irritated with the lack of information in some of my specialty areas. I want to change that. I also was upset by the relative lack of women editors on Wikipedia and the best way to change that is to do something, right? So here I am.
My Areas of Expertise edit
Extremely related to my little bio above are my areas of expertise.
- Neuroscience, in particular: Alzheimer's disease, neurodegenerative diseases, aging, animal behavior paradigms, neuroimmunology, pharmacology.
- Women in science. I'm hoping to get some more pages/info up for important women in science.
Biases edit
- In the field of Alzheimer's research there are two basic "camps" for the pathology - the amyloid hypothesis folks and the tau-ists. I'm neither. I certainly think amyloid and tau are relevant, but I am more in favor of a neuroimmunological approach, which has only recently gained traction in the field. I used to get "you don't really study Alzheimer's disease."
- I'm politically liberal. Mostly. Kind of. Usually. Then again, "reality has a liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert
- I'm religiously agnostic but raised Christian, I don't really care about religion most of the time but I assume this could slant my viewpoints.
- I am an adamant feminist. This will probably not change my reporting of facts but may cause me to put up a lot more pages for relevant and important female scientists.